Obviously it was a pre-season game so the result didn’t matter. But you got the impression that the score could have been twice as lopsided and Austin still would have walked away with a semblance of satisfaction — and it all went back to the man he put under centre for the first half and will go with the rest of the season health permitting.

Austin made the decision in the off-season to cut ties with Henry Burris, the guy who got him to the Grey Cup, and go with a rising star in the league in former Argos backup Zach Collaros.